Example sentences of "is at an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Content and Methodology Most of the training currently being offered is at an introductory level . |
| 2 | In the Lake District , mapping of the Lower Palaeozoic strata on the Cockermouth ( 23 ) sheet has been completed and fieldwork on the Ambleside ( 38 ) sheet is at an advanced stage . |
| 3 | The particularly complicated editorial and keying work on volume 8 of the Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired since 1925 has made substantial progress this year ; the catalogue description is finished and the disc has been sent to HMSO , while work on the index is at an advanced stage . |
| 4 | The draft Structure Plan Review is at an advanced stage of preparation . |
| 5 | In a very small studio or one-roomed flat where space is at an absolute premium it would pay to build in multi-purpose furniture that would solve the problems of sleeping/working/eating and sitting all in one area . |
| 6 | Where the value of the intangible asset is at an all-time low , it may be possible to sell it to an IOFC operation and realise a capital loss in the selling location . |
| 7 | His credibility as EC President is at an all-time low just when he needs to tackle yet another crisis . |
| 8 | Public confidence in the judiciary is at an all-time low — hardly surprising , considering recent miscarriages of justice such as the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six cases . |
| 9 | ‘ Morale in the Inland Revenue is at an all-time low as a result of market testing and centralisation . |
| 10 | The Manila stockmarket is at an all-time high ; yet electricity power-cuts in the country last an average of eight hours a day . |
| 11 | He claims the problem is at an all-time high and that confiscated nets are finding their way back into the hands of poachers . |
| 12 | Badger-baiting is at an all-time high in East and North Yorkshire and it is estimated that each year in Great Britain as many as 9,000 badgers meet a premature death . |
| 13 | South Central LA is one of America 's civil war zones , a suburban ghetto torn apart by drugs , where the murder rate is at an all time high and almost all the victims are black . |
| 14 | Morale in the service is at an all time low . |
| 15 | The frequent battle between parents and child when the latter is at an adolescent stage of self-assertion while the parents — or one of them — strive to retain the old family structure is a case in point . |
| 16 | We both agree that he should be able to offer favourable terms for the hire of the slope for the proposed event , provided it is at an off-peak time . |
| 17 | If it is at an elegant dinner table , there is a choice between a fino sherry ( or a manzanilla ) or champagne . |
| 18 | Though the diplomatic courtship is at an early stage , the Foreign Office is optimistic about such a marriage of convenience . |
| 19 | This picture of antislavery support is at an early stage of a shift towards the objective of emancipation ; the completion of the transition took several more years even for abolitionist leaders . |
| 20 | Care management is at an early stage of development in Britain but , if the experience in the United States is anything to go on , we can be optimistic that the system will promote for the recipient a better coordination of services and a better quality of community care . |
| 21 | Decomposition is at an early stage and he 's a heavy , bony type with no fat to speak of . ’ |
| 22 | Although seismic acquisition is at an early stage a number of attractive leads have already been recognised and these leads will be matured and tested during 1993 . |
| 23 | Research at the University of Leeds , in collaboration with Imperial College , London , and the National Engineering Laboratory at East Kilbride , is at an early stage , and it may be 10 years before practical applications for supercritical water are developed . |
| 24 | Mr Ritchie has been told by legal counsel that this new evidence in their opinion provides substantial grounds for Mr Lang to order a retrial or a full reinvestigation of the case , but assessment of the appeal documents is at an early stage . |
| 25 | The field is being actively investigated and is at an exciting stage ; computational chemists have entered the fray . |
| 26 | The service has developed significantly and is at an important stage whereby several major clients are considering adopting the Rentokil approach to facilities management . |
| 27 | Custom manufacturing , where the product is at an earlier stage of development and they work with the client in scale-up and production . |
| 28 | Judged by the frequency of meetings and the flow of formal Cabinet papers , full Cabinet activity under Mrs Thatcher is at an historical low . |
| 29 | My visit in February ( a report is forthcoming ) showed me that Northern Spain is at an excellent stage of development to be used as a test bed for software . |
| 30 | It is at an opposite pole to The Turn of the Screw , where every detail advances the tragedy . |